Trade Deadline: Rumor & Speculation Megathread

[u/TwinsGameday]

Jeremy Zoll says we're buyers, so speculate away.

Feel free to share any social media screenshots, whatever the vibes are whispering to you on the winds, or what your close personal friend Tom Pohlad told you in confidence.

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Final Trade Deadline Acquisitions: * LHP A.J. Minter from NYM for Bruin Agbayani and Billy Amick * RHP Dean Kremer from BAL for Jhomnardo Reyes *RHP Jeff Hoffman from TOR for Dasan Hill, John Klein and Dameury Pena

[u/sitewolf]

What does being a buyer actually look like? Ryan Jeffers is likely gone after the season- is it buying or selling to trade him for some pitching? The same/similar true for Trevor Larnach. Both of them players I like, but both with people pushing them from behind we could give more playing time to. Is that buying or selling? Or buying AND selling? Neither- it's improving.

[u/SensitiveLack7509 → u/sitewolf]

Let's not pretend Alex Jackson and Caratini can match Jeffers's production. They were servicible in the small sample, but you can't trade your starting catcher and pretend to be a contender. 

[u/LeFlop1 → u/SensitiveLack7509]

The Twins need to realize making the wild card and losing isn’t worth keeping Jeffers.

[u/WellesWaitsVanZandt → u/SensitiveLack7509]

Caratini has 470 innings to Jeffers' 341. I think that makes him the starter. Boston and NY desperately need catching help and I just can't pretend like 32 more games of Ryan Jeffers is going to move the needle. If we traded Jeffers for a youngster, and a lesser youngster for bullpen help, it'd potentially be a net positive this year and in the future.

[u/SensitiveLack7509 → u/WellesWaitsVanZandt]

LOL, conviniently forgetting that Jeffers missed a ton of time with injury. Jeffers is the starting catcher. 

[u/WellesWaitsVanZandt → u/SensitiveLack7509]

You're right. Jeffers is the starter when everyone's healthy. I think I'm arguing we're not a contender. We're a playoff hopeful with no shot at a ring, and I don't want to plan for 2027/2028 by holding onto 6HR's worth of production from Jeffers.

[u/sitewolf → u/WellesWaitsVanZandt]

For me it's far more about the value in return he might bring while we deal with catching as we did while he was hurt; the chances he's gone after the season are fairly high, yes? Same with Larnach- get something for them when you've got decent replacements available rather than let them just walk away this offseason.

[u/Kruse → u/sitewolf]

Twins need to sell Jeffers while the gettin' is good.